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Friday, June 22, 2012

Sepia Saturday: Up in the air

Sepia Saturday challenges bloggers to share family history through old photographs.

This week’s Sepia Saturday prompt is a popular carnival ride:the swings.It happens to be my favorite because for this Big Chicken it offers the maximum stomach-dropping thrill.No roller coaster for me, thank-you.

And no roller coaster or swinging carousel for my great-aunt Velma Davis Woodring and her friends either. They found a different thrill, a different way to test gravity. Velma’s college scrapbook does not elaborate on the summer of 1924 when she and her chums climbed onto some structure, perhaps a bridge, and posed for pictures.

High up?
Bill Porter
Unknown and Velma Davis

Up in the air?
Bill Porter
Virginia Cole

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The captions with question marks make me wonder if Velma was teasing.Were they really high up?Or was there some trick photography designed to fool the eye?Maybe they were not as high in the sky as it appears. It looks pretty dangerous though.

I'm not a rides person -- just those phony rides at Disney like the Haunted Mansion and It's a Small World. I even gave up the tea-cups - really, I know we're not going to crash but oh golly it feels like it.

Do you think the girls were wearing school uniforms? Their clothes look similiar, especially the girls standing in the picture on the left. Don't like heights and can't imagine standing up there if they were on a bridge.

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My name is Wendy. About twenty years ago, I helped my mother research the Jolletts. Since retiring from teaching, I have expanded my research which I share here. When I’m not looking for my own family, I index for FamilySearch and the Greene County Historical Society.
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